I started thinking on the drive home tonight about how we are completely surrounded most days by people's dreams. That car your driving? There is some car designer man out there that spent countless hours trying to make that car into something amazing.....that car is the manifestation of countless hours of work. And the roads you're driving on? Those are in the pattern that someone, somewhere started imagining one day. And that rotting old house you drive by every time you go to see your grandparents? Some farmer 100 years ago built that with his bare hands and couldn't wait to move his family in.
Every business you go to started off as someone's dream. Every movie you go to started off as a writer's dream. Every song you hear is someone's words pouring out of the radio. Your new dress started as a doodle on someone's notepad. Your old couch was once someone's baby for months and months while it was being designed and developed. This computer I'm on......this website YOU are on......the list is endless.
It is so easy to forget. EVERYTHING is someone's baby-- the product of their hard work. We are all connected....our dreams are all connected by everything we do every day. We are surrounded by the hard work and dreams of people who have a million different interests and most days we are blind to it all. We take it for granted and ignore each other.
Just take a second tomorrow and take a second look at all of the things you look at but don't see every day. It's kind of fun.
October 15, 2007
Tunnel Vision
Posted by Sarah at 5:50 PM
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9 comments:
great post. thanks
Wow! Cool post. So insightful. :)
That's some deep stuff. I never thought about it that way. Thanks for the eye-opening suggestion.
p.s. I found you off the Good Girl Lit blog. Aren't they the coolest?!?!
Hi solshine! Welcome.
And yes, the Good Girl lit blog IS a good time.
Good Girl.... come on now, sarah. You're too mysterious for that.
Hey-- Good Girl Lit isn't MY blog. I maintain my INCREDIBLE mysteriousness.
Sarah,
I think about this kind of thing most when I pass by some kind of random local restaurant. You know, places that you wonder if anyone ever frequents. I always think, "someone built that place, no doubt took out a loan, and is COOKING in there." I wonder what it is like as I continue on my way toward Chili's (or the like).
I should stop. Or, at the least, STOP AND THINK way more often. Great reminder.
I know just what you mean, Laurie.
But don't feel bad. Somebody started Chili's once upon a time too.
God bless the person who created Chili's. Their food is yummy to the tummy.
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